I will plead your cause,
    and take vengeance for you.
And I will dry up her sea,
    and make her springs dry.
³⁷ Babylon will become heaps,
    a dwelling place for jackals,
an astonishment, and a hissing,
    without an inhabitant.
³⁸ They will roar together like young lions;
    they will growl as lions’ whelps.
³⁹ When they become heated up,
    I will make their feasts,
    and I will make them drunk,
that they may rejoice,
    and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not awake,
    says the Lord.
⁴⁰ I will bring them down
    like lambs to the slaughter,
    like rams with male goats.

⁴¹ How Sheshak has been captured!
    And how the praise of the whole earth has been seized!
How Babylon has become an astonishment
    among the nations!
⁴² The sea has come up over Babylon;
    she has been covered with the multitude of the waves.
⁴³ Her cities have become a desolation,
    a dry land and a wilderness,
a land in which no man dwells,
    through which no son of man passes.
⁴⁴ I will punish Bel in Babylon,
    and I will bring forth from his mouth what he has swallowed up;
and the nations will not flow together any more to him.
    Indeed, the wall of Babylon will fall.